Reply #15: I was raised UU [View All]

[LdyGuique]

and I've always maintained that UU isn't a Christian Church.

1) It's not trinitarian, it's UNItarian -- meaning no basic belief in the Father/Son/Holy Ghost triparate;

2) I've never known a Unitarian who subscribed to a belief that the Bible was a holy scriptural text--certainly not in the sense of other Christians;

3) UU members tend to look for the common threads that run through all religions, which again isn't Christian

4) I've never known a UUer who professed that "Christ was his/her personal savior;"

5) One can be spiritual and not be religious -- being religious means accepting a certain amount of dogma from a structured religious ideology.

I think being UU is to be more in touch with a sense of wonderment about the greater scheme of things and a strong sense of community with shared ethics and morality. While there are UUers who believe in God/dess in some form, it's not the God from the Bible.